Monday the dressing was removed from my right foot and the stitches were taken out.  I am suppose to be wearing a walking cast for the next 5 weeks, although I'm having a little swelling, and that is making it uncomfortable right now.  So, I'm spending a lot of time with "toes above the nose."  I return to see the surgeon in February.

The Christmas decorations are down and put away, thanks to Glenn, Matt and Zac.  So Amber's birthday party looked liked I had hoped it would, and she seemed to have a nice celebration.



It gets a little hard around this time of year, for me, when so many celebrations are happy ones.  But sandwiched in the middle of Amber's and Matt's birthday, was Mike's, which this Saturday would have been his 56th. 

I read in the news today where this married couple, who celebrated six decades together, died within 12 hours of one another.  Neither, needing to learn to live without the other, for too long.  I'm so grateful for them...even though it makes my heart a little sad, at the same time.  Learning to go on, after losing Mike, has been really rough.  The only reason I have been able  to, is because of those faces in today's post.